EFF, ACLU Back WikiLeaks, does the ALAC and ICANN support free speach?
All my friends, Seems that the ACLU and EFF are supporting Wikilinks. This is a good and healthy thing in the preservation of free and unfettered speach. Question very recently seems to be, does the ALAC and ICANN support the 1st amendment? Limiting speach in a public forum of which ALL of ICANN's created forums are supposed to, be have not and do not. One has to wonder why? I for one am saddened to see that some of our Australian friends have decided to seek to limit speach and practice Selective Censorship in the ALAC... See:http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org/2008q1... and http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org/2008q1... and http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac_atlarge-lists.icann.org/2008q1... Article follows: Seems like the forces to protect freedom-of-speech in the groundsetting Wikileaks.org case have spoken: Henry Weinstein at LA Times reports that http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wikileaks27feb27,1,6769872.story a coalition of media and public interest organizations today urged judge Jeffrey White to rescind the shutdown of Wikileaks.org, which presents "restraint on free speech that violated the First Amendment", and is generally considered to become a representative case for free online speech. The dirty dozen organizations fighting for your voice and mine include the EFF, the ACLU, The Times, AP, Gannett, Hearst, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. Lets hope that is enough muscle strength to stop a judge running wild in favor of a bunch of offshore bankers! Meanwhile http://wikileaks.be/ wikileaks is still going strong via all available other domains, and is ttp://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks:Donate currently organizing support and donations.
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Jeffrey A. Williams